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Cork Record Mat

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Kick out the jams with our new cork record mat. Instruments pop to life. Crackle is reduced. Vocals are clearer and more dramatic. The background is quieter, soundstage wider and deeper. How does this thing work? The secret is in the 12 isolation discs surrounding the outside of the mat and the single larger disc for the center label. The discs lift and support the record while floating it above and decoupling it from the platter. This lowers record vibration and reduces acoustic feedback. Stylus tracking is improved and record wear reduced. The mat eliminates the grunge and leaves behind a rich, clear, dynamic sound.

Cork is the perfect material. It sucks up unwanted vibrations and releases the life and energy of the music. It's naturally non-static and non-adhesive making the mat perfectly safe for use on all platters and it won't harm your records. Cork grips the record better than felt so there's less record slippage and fewer timing errors. The mat is thin, lightweight, and generally doesn't require a VTA adjustment. Listen for yourself, the improvement is easy to hear.

Young Love

Young Love is the fourth full-length album from Nashville-based singer/songwriter Mat Kearney and follow-up to 2009's City of Black & White. Recorded in Nashville with producers Robert Marvin and Jason Lehning, the album was inspired by Kearney's recent nuptials which is openly displayed on the lead single Hey Mama written for his new wife.

1. Hey Mama

2. Ships In The Night 3. Count On Me4. Sooner Or Later 5. Chasing The Light 6. Learning To Love Again

Thorens Platter Mat Cork & Rubber

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Non-static platter mat consisting of fine granules (rubber, cork). Made to effectively suppress the typical resonance generated in vinyl records during playback as well as to provide a silent foundation.

Challengers

THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS return with their fourthalbum and their first recorded outside of bassist JohnCollins's basement studio. Airier, more spacious andmore relaxed than its jackhammer predecessors,'Challengers' is the sound of songwriters Carl Newmanand Dan BÉjar stretching out. In a recent Pitchfork interview, Newman rejected the power-pop label and suggested power-folk instead, and several songs on thenew album live up to it, particularly the luscious NekoCase fronted ballads Go Places and Challengers.That's not to say the band doesn't play anthems - it certainly does, but a rousing track like BÉjar's MyriadHarbour is more imbued with the ghosts of Fred Neiland Viv Stanshall than with the new-wave songsters ofyore. In general, Newman's songwriting is slightly morescrutable this time around; his lyrics still ring with wryperception and political metaphor, but betray some ofthe magnanimity that comes with new love - our armsfill with miracles, he writes in Go Places.

The sophisticated, rich production values and complexrange of songwriting will allow us to extend the NewPornographers' audience to new groups: AAA radio listeners, fans of Neko's solo work, and coffee drinkers ingeneral. At the same time, the overflow of glorious pophooks and stompers like Heaven & Earth and Mutinywill keep the existing fanbase in the groove. Our mostambitious Buy Early, Get Now preorder promotion willrecruit those existing fans and deploy them onlinemonths prior to street date, while allowing retailers tosell the record at the same time.

Brighten The Corners

Vinyl LP + MP3 Coupon

To coincide with Pavement's 2010 reunion tour and the release of Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, Matador Records is launching a new vinyl series featuring all 5 of the band's studio albums plus the Watery, Domestic EP.

What Would The Community Think

Back In Print!

Cat Power's outstanding 1996 debut for Matador Records finds Chan Marshall backed by producer Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth on percussion and Doug Easley on pedal steel guitar. The rare combination of musicians works to perfection here on the passionate cuts Nude As The News, Water and Air and a cover of Smog's Bathysphere among others. This reissue also includes a coupon for a free MP3 download of the album.

1. In This Hole 2. Good Clean Fun 3. What Would The Community Think 4. Nude As The News 5. They Tell Me 6. Taking People 7. Fate Of The Human Carbine 8. King Rides By 9. Bathysphere10. Water And Air 11. Enough 12. The Coat Is Always On

The Covers Record

Out of Print Since 2008!

Chan Marshall's 2000 Matador release, The Covers Record, offers up intense and lovely renditions of classics and obscurities from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Michael Hurley, Nina Simone, traditional numbers and more. Back in print after a three year hiatus!

Jukebox

New Single LP Version

Chan Marshall returned in 2008 with Jukebox, her second album of cover songs after 2000's The Covers Record. Here we find Marshall paying tribute to the great vocalists who have influenced her over the years including Hank Williams (Ramblin' (Wo)man), Bob Dylan (I Believe in You), James Brown (Lost Someone) and Frank Sinatra (New York), among others.

1. New York

2. Ramblin' (Wo)Man3. Metal Heart4. Silver Stallion5. Aretha, Sing One For Me6. Lost Someone7. Lord, Help the Poor & Needy8. I Believe In You9. Song To Bobby10. Don't Explain11. Woman Left Lonely12. Blue

VS: The Definitive Edition

Mission of Burma's second and final studio album Vs. was released in the fall of 1982, just months before they broke up when the band was at the pinnacle of their songwriting and performing skills. Vs. is a strange and exciting record, full of depth and harmonic color. Unlike its predecessor, it begins slowly, with a fever dream of guitar workouts, drone and tremelo, in Circles, Trem Two and Dead Pool. The album pivots around the central track, Mica, perhaps the band's finest moment about a woman's descent into unreality and madness. At the end, Vs. expands with the triumphant melodic anthems The Ballad Of Johnny Burma and That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate.

This Definitive Edition of Vs. now on a Deluxe Gatefold 180g Double LP looks and sounds better than ever and it includes four bonus tracks (previously on the Ryko CD); tracks 13-15 were unreleased studio outtakes from the Vs. sessions, and 16 was the B-side of the 1982 ôTrem Twoö 7â€³ single.

Real Emotional Trash

Stephen Malkmus has never made a record that covered nearly as much stylistic ground as Real Emotional Trash, his fourth solo LP (this one credited with The Jicks, like his second, Pig Lib), and the result is a decidedly low-down and heavy record that packs a hell of an emotional punch. Cold Son, Out of Reaches and We Can't Help You are amongst the more gorgeous, contemplative songs Malkmus has ever recorded, but true to form there's no shortage of dark humor or virtuoso guitar work. Monster drummer Janet Weiss, bassist Joanna Bolme and guitar/keyboardist Mike Clark set the table nicely for Malkmus and his guitar to be on full display here.

The Chemistry Of Common Life

The second outing from Toronto's hardcore wunderkinds is a dense, orchestral effort and expansive epic about the mysteries of birth, death and the origins of life. Merging elements of hardcore songwriting with up to 70 tracks of guitars, organs, winds and vocals, the songs are iconoclastic and startling, with Pink Eyes' growling vocals front and center. Though Fucked Up remain punks at heart, if quixotically diverse ones, they have created a great, weird, heavy record that stubbornly sticks in your brain and your heart. Here on 180g vinyl in a gatefold sleeve with MP3 coupon.

1. Son The Father2. Magic Word3. Golden Seal4. Days Of Last5. Crooked Head6. No Epiphany7. Black Albino Bones8. Royal Swan9. Twice Born10. Looking For God11. The Chemistry Of Common Life

Electric Version

The New Pornographers 2003 album, Electric Version on RTI pressed audiophile 180g HQ virgin vinyl. Features the tracks The Laws Version Have Changed, All For Swinging You Around and It's Only Divine Right.

1. The Electric Version2. From Blown Speakers3. The Laws Have Changed4. The End of Medicine5. Loose Translation6. Chump Change7. All for Swinging You Around8. The New Face of Zero and One9. Testament to Youth in Verse10. It's Only Divine Right11. Ballad of a Comeback Kid12. July Jones13. Miss Teen Wordpower

Under The Bushes Under The Stars

Under The Bushes Under The Stars is made up of unforgettable riffs, infectious vocal melodies, and little else - hinting at stadium-sized ambitions while keeping the songs themselves human-sized. By remaining tethered to the lo-fi aesthetic but thinking big, Under The Bushes, Under The Stars is propelled by a sense of tension that the band hasn't really exploredsince.

-Stereogum

In November 1995 Guided By Voices handed in their darkest and most obscure record to date. The 60-odd songs the band had recorded in 24-track studios had all been scrapped. Chief Robert Pollard was adamant about releasing a home-taped album "as is, no compromises, man,"; citing his dissatisfaction with the hi-fi material.

Then Bob changed his mind and went into another 24-track studio and banged out the majority of the songs on Under The Bushes Under The Stars in two days. The results are Guided By Voices' clearest and most ecstatic album to date. A fabulous introductory record for new fans confused by the amount of Guided By Voices catalog in the racks, Under The Bushes also contains new songs to trigger synapses in their devoted core audience.

Love Comes Close

Love Comes Close is the debut full-length from Philly/New York quartet Cold Cave. Matador is now reissuing the instantly sold-out self-released album from August of 2009. The warm, rich synth pop sounds are laced with equal measures of romance and nihilism and somewhere in these realms of negative hiss and out-of-body bliss, there is a peak awaiting all who enter. Singer/keyboardist/songwriter Wesley Eisold is joined by Caralee McElroy (ex-Xiu Xiu), Dominick Fernow (Prurient) and Sarah Lipstate (ex-Parts & Labor, Noveller). Eisold himself served time with hardcore punk legends American Nightmare/Give Up The Ghost and Some Girls.

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